Going Under

Author: Virgil Suàrez
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611921564
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
HeÍs fast. HeÍs nervous. HeÍs outrunning family and friends. Xavier Cuevas is on the treadmill in blind pursuit of the American Dream. Going nowhere. Going under. He canÍt please anyonenot his Cuban parents nor his Anglo ex-wifeand least of all himself. Wedged between two cultures, two sets of ethics and expectations, Xavier is having trouble keeping step with the frenetic bi-cultural mambo he is caught up in. Virgil SuàrezÍs fourth novel, Going Under, spins the compelling tale of a broken family, shattered dreams, a fragmented existence and a Cuban yuppie who has little else to show for all his efforts. Xavier is as lost in the past as his parents are. HeÍs as disoriented in the present as most of mainstream America is. He certainly has no time to think about the future. Going Under is a clever and disturbing parable of these disquieting times when standing still means losing ground and ultimately ñgoing underîeconomically, physically, culturally. With this brilliant fast-paced novel, Suàrez attains a higher ground for the Cuban-American novel. SuàrezÍs sparse, elegant prose lures us with a cool and witty portrayal of Xavier and MiamiÍs Cuban personality. As his cinematic style beckons, the reader canÍt help but cruise along those hot Miami boulevards and observe the human tragic comedy as it unfolds in pastel colored flashes. Going Under is a riveting ride that shouldnÍt be missed.

Going Under

Author: Jeffe Kennedy
Publisher: Jeffe Kennedy
ISBN: 1958679305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
Game designer Emily Bartwell is in hiding. Fleeing online trolls that ruined her career, marriage, and life—pretty much in that exact order—she’s made a new life on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. Yes, it’s lonely, but she has her online community for company. And she has her work: Labyrinth, a wildly popular role-playing game, one she’s created under the male alias, Phoenix. When sexy writer, Fox Mullins, rents the beach house next door, however, he entices Emily out of her isolation. Flirting, teasing, igniting desires she’d forgotten she had, Fox tempts Emily into playing games of a very different sort—ones where he makes the rules. Fox is delighted by his luck in discovering his gorgeous, single neighbor’s simmeringly passionate nature under her oh-so-private exterior. Playing with her, pushing the lovely Emily’s boundaries, gives him relief from the painstaking, frustrating task of tracking the brilliant gamer, Phoenix—and discovering his elusive prey’s true identity. Exposing Phoenix will be the biggest scoop of his career as an undercover tech reporter. As Fox and Emily push the limits of intimacy, they discover that their fling is leading to something much deeper. They’re both keeping secrets that could devastate the other, but which of them will win the game in the end?

Going Under

Author: Justina Robson
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1591028337
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
Lila Black is off with the faeries . . . Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, demons, ghosts and elementals—and their worlds are open to us. Things have been different for Special Agent Lila Black too: tortured and magic-scarred by elves, rebuilt by humans into a half-robot, part-AI, nuclear-fueled walking arsenal, and carrying the essence of a dead elfin necromancer in her chest, sometimes she has trouble figuring out who she is. And a mission to the world of the fae may not help her work it out. The fae are beautiful, glamorous, exotic, and talented. Their inventions make food taste better, make beer divine, and bring sparkle and mischief to the world–but that’s only the surface. And Lila is being sent in at the deep end, to the deepest, darkest levels of Faerie: on the primal level, nothing about the fae is glamorous at all. In a winter-locked, raw, and primitive world, Lila has to deal with the fae at their most basic levels, as tricksters and dealmakers–and the only deals worth making are bloody ones. If Lila’s quest is to succeed, and if she is ever to escape Faerie, the right question must be asked, the right sacrifice must be made, and the right quarry must be hunted down on the winter solstice. All of which is difficult, when the only aides Lila brought to Faerie are her friends . . . Justina Robson’s new series combines her trademark themes of identity and reality, magic and technology, break-neck plots, a mischievous sense of fun, and a seriously sexy new heroine.

Going Under

Author: Lauren Dane
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425262103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
“Lauren Dane always delivers a steamy, exciting ride” (New York Times bestselling author Larissa Ione), and she does it again in her new novel of two lovers fighting for their lives against a rising threat, and a passion that’s just as dangerous… In the wake of the Magister’s rampage, chaos rules. Left reeling, the Others and the humans scramble to create some sort of unity in the face of growing unrest and violence from anti-Other hate groups—and PR guru Molly Ryan is the witch who can do it. She grew up in the human world but there’s nothing left for her there. She’s lost her PR firm and her friends, and now she’s decided to put all her fight toward aiding the Others in this dark new reality. Gage Garrity, one of the few Others who survived the massacre, fears that the crusade will expose Molly to greater dangers than ever before. Now, together, with magick on their side, Molly and Gage are on the road in a desperate struggle to unite a torn world. From state houses to television news to legislative conference rooms across the country, they’re fighting the good fight. And it’s bringing out a passion in both of them they never expected—one as volatile, intense and all-consuming as their relentless battle for world unity. A battle that could be their undoing…

Going Under

Author: Justina Robson
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575087633
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
Book three of the Quantum Gravity Series sees Lila Black back from her adventures in Demonia and struggling to cope with the even stranger world of Faerie. And these Faeries couldn't be less like Tinkerbell. These Faeries are capricious, unknowable and dangerous. And they will be Lila's toughest test yet. Lila may have reached some sort of peace over the fate of her parents, she may have built some bridges with her sister but when you're half cyborg, when you contain enough high-tech weaponry to win a small war, when you don't know your heart, still love an elf and don't trust your bosses you can be capricious unknowable and quiter dangerous enough yourself. This is a fast moving SF fantasy full of thrills and adventures but informed with a ready wit and prepared to touch on serious themes of identity, reality and sexual politics.

Going Under

Author: Sonia Henry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760878641
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
A darkly funny and sexy novel that blows the lid off the medical profession and life inside a hospital by a young doctor whose anonymous article about the pressures of trainee doctors went viral around the world.

Going Under

Author: Kathe Koja
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 9780374303938
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Because all my life had been a chrysalis, with you, Ada and Marshall and our house; even though we did other things and saw other people, the summers at the lake, and all those homeschoolers' parties, it was still always just - us. Hilly and her brother, Ivan, have been homeschooled by their parents. All their lives it has been just the two of them - Ivan and Hilly, brother and sister, pilot and copilot. Until Hilly breaks out of their cozy cocoon to work on the local high school literary magazine as an extracurricular activity. Ivan feels betrayed: it's no longer just the two of them. And when Hilly goes into a depression after the suicide of a friend she has made at the magazine, she drifts even further away from Ivan. Hilly's parents insist that she see a psychotherapist. Ivan steps in to help manage Hilly's recovery by taking her to and from her appointments but compounds the betrayal by establishing his own relationship with the manipulative therapist. Through the alternating voices of Hilly and Ivan, and drawing on the myths of Persephone and Narcissus, Kathe Koja explores the souls of two teenagers caught in a world where love takes you deeper than you ever dreamed you'd go.

Going Under

Author: Lexi Ryan
Publisher: Lexi Ryan
ISBN: 1940832039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
New York Times bestseller Lexi Ryan brings you GOING UNDER, a sexy and emotional standalone sports romance set in the world of the Blackhawk Boys. It can be read alone or enjoyed with the other books in the series. ~ ~ ~ If I met Alexandra DeLuca for the first time today, I would only need one word to describe her: MINE. She's everything she was when we said goodbye. Beautiful, stubborn, sweet...and off-limits. After two years leading separate lives, our worlds have collided. Now that she's back home working and taking classes beside me, she's bound to make me lose my mind. She's all I've ever wanted, all I've ever dreamed of, and the one thing I can never have. Not because she's my best friend's sister. Not because all four DeLuca brothers would come at me with fists swinging if I hurt her. Not even because she's way better than I will ever deserve. I keep my distance because we didn't meet for the first time today. We met five years ago when I was a different person. When my demons ruled me. Even though I've changed--even though I've gotten my life together and become a better man—I can't change the past. And the secrets that haunt me would destroy her. But I'm not the only one with secrets, and when the truth comes out, I don't know where to turn. What do you do when your world washes away beneath your feet and you feel like you're drowning? What do you do when the woman you promised yourself you'd never touch is the only thing that can keep you from going under? GOING UNDER is a standalone novel and the third in The Blackhawk Boys series. Football. Secrets. Lies. Passion. These boys don’t play fair. Which Blackhawk Boy will steal your heart? Book 1 - SPINNING OUT (Arrow's story) Book 2 - RUSHING IN (Christopher's story) Book 3 - GOING UNDER (Sebastian's story) Book 4 – FALLING HARD (Keegan's story) Book 5 – IN TOO DEEP (Mason's story)

Going Under

Author: Georgia Cates
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781475278835
Category : First loves
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Star football player Jesse Boone is starting at a new high school and he plans to take the starting quarterback's place. Then, just to prove he's the big man on campus, Jesse decides he'll steal the quarterback's girlfriend, Claire Deveraux, too.

Going Under

Author: Maryn Scott
Publisher: Bella Books
ISBN: 1642474789
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349

Book Description
When Dr. Patricia Reynolds is asked to participate in a business consortium, the last thing she expects is an invitation to be part of a new intelligence agency, LASA—The Latin American Security Agency. As Patricia finds her niche working money laundering cases, she also finds herself pulled ever closer to one of her colleagues. Dr. Maeve Quinn shies away from relationships, always distrustful that women only want her for her wealth. But Maeve is finding it difficult to resist the allure of the enigmatic Dr. Patricia Reynolds. Anna Flores has finished her undercover assignment and is living in Denver with her girlfriend, Peel Primm. After surviving their ordeal in Mexico, they’re just trying to live a normal life—until Anna is dragged into a LASA operation and “normal” is turned on its head. As Patricia, Maeve, Anna and Peel are drawn into a dangerous web, they come face-to-face with everything they have to lose, and ultimately must decide what to let go and what—or who—they can’t bear to let slip through their fingers. A follow-up to Talented Amateur.